Moody Center
What Passes for Justice
RECEIVED Wed., June 10, 2020
Dear Editor,
When criminals rule, their justice will be criminal.
What passes for justice here in the great state of Texas, has a nasty habit of throwing the innocent into prison by the tens of locked-down thousands. Poor citizens who plead their actual innocence, but can’t afford the bail, are routinely kept in their respective county jails for a year, and more. With no hope of defense, jobs lost, cars lost, families unravelling, they may get a second visit from their so-called defense: “Take the plea, or else.”
With judges and defense working for the glory of the prosecutors, off go the innocent to prison. Maybe one in five is actually innocent – some say more, and some say way, way more!
Now confined to bunks for days on end, living on white bread and peanut butter, 24/7, for days on end. No commissary, no library, nothing, nada.
A moment of silence with this slaughter of the innocent ongoing.
When criminals rule, their justice will be criminal.
What passes for justice here in the great state of Texas, has a nasty habit of throwing the innocent into prison by the tens of locked-down thousands. Poor citizens who plead their actual innocence, but can’t afford the bail, are routinely kept in their respective county jails for a year, and more. With no hope of defense, jobs lost, cars lost, families unravelling, they may get a second visit from their so-called defense: “Take the plea, or else.”
With judges and defense working for the glory of the prosecutors, off go the innocent to prison. Maybe one in five is actually innocent – some say more, and some say way, way more!
Now confined to bunks for days on end, living on white bread and peanut butter, 24/7, for days on end. No commissary, no library, nothing, nada.
A moment of silence with this slaughter of the innocent ongoing.
Bob Schroeder